Reviving the 1918 Virus

By Peter Tyson

Posted 11.01.06

NOVA scienceNOW

The 1918 flu virus killed up to 50 million people worldwide. Recently, researchers sequenced this frightening germ's genome and published the data on a public database. Then other researchers used the genome to bring the long-vanished virus back to life. Was all this justified, even to help prepare for future pandemics? Read arguments for and against, then decide for yourself in our poll.

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